One of the building's most visible features is a relief sculpture over the entrance of its east side. It was created by noted Italian sculptor Edmond Amateis. The work's central figure is Truth, guarding the eternal flame of enlightenment. The figures on the left are Fine Arts and Industry. On the right are Law and Agriculture.[2]

Currently, the building houses the Democrat and Chronicle, one of largest papers in the Gannett chain. In 2014 it was announced that Gannett was selling the Gannett building and moving the Democrat and Chronicle to a new yet to be built building at the corner of Main Street and Clinton Ave on the former Midtown Plaza site. At 153,350 square feet, the Gannett building is considerably larger than the new planned headquarters, which will be 42,000 square feet. The paper no longer needs the considerable space in the new digital age where newsprint in the United States is on the decline and the building which includes the space that formerly held the presses is expensive to maintain. The Gannett building is currently on the market for sale at an asking price of $3.5 million.[4]

The building also once held fellow Gannett newspaper and former sister evening paper The Times-Union from the opening of the building until the paper's demise in 1996.